Horizontal logistics collaboration: Decreasing costs through flexibility and an adequate cost allocation strategy

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 339-355

  Vanovermeire, Christine ^a   Sörensen, Kenneth ^a   Van Breedam, Alex ^b   Vannieuwenhuyse, Bart ^b   Verstrepen, Sven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b TriVizor   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cost allocation; horizontal collaboration; order bundling; Shapley

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903210525     PISSN: 13675567     EISSN: 1469848X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13675567.2013.865719     Document Type: Article

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